{"id":103856,"date":"2025-12-27T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/who-draws-the-lines-a-history-of-gerrymandering\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:07:13","slug":"who-draws-the-lines-a-history-of-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/who-draws-the-lines-a-history-of-gerrymandering\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Draws the Lines? A History of Gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Over the holidays, we\u2019re rebroadcasting some of our favorite interviews from 2025.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump this summer set off an unusual mid-decade redistricting scramble after he asked Republican-led states to redraw their congressional districts to give the GOP more seats in Congress. California Democrats responded with their own new map, which voters approved through Proposition 50 in November.<\/p>\n<p>Scott and Marisa discuss the history of gerrymandering with Los Angeles Times writer James Rainey, taking us back to an earlier era when it was <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/newsletter\/2025-09-18\/essential-california-redistricting-newsom-phil-burton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/newsletter\/2025-09-18\/essential-california-redistricting-newsom-phil-burton\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">a regular part of California\u2019s political landscape<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Political Breakdown\u2019s weekly newsletter<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/12\/26\/who-draws-the-lines-a-history-of-gerrymandering-2\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the holidays, we\u2019re rebroadcasting some of our favorite interviews from 2025. President Donald Trump this summer set off an unusual mid-decade redistricting scramble after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}